Customer Testimonials

Thanks so much! Our team had a great time with the workshop — a number of people mentioned how much fun Althea and Isabel were and that they really brought the workshop to life. I also really want to thank them for doing all the setup and take down by themselves, we had no clean up to do after they left which is the dream. Overall, the activity was a huge success and I appreciate your team turning this around so quickly. I will flag this for future people who will be running events in our office as a super smooth operation. -Morgan M.

I am writing to you to let you know that my daughter Alessia B. really enjoyed her time at the Chocolate Tales camp! She had a blast with the baking and fun planned for her, and we enjoyed tasting all of her delicious treats.

What a perfect choice for our wedding favours! Super easy to work with, and only a few guests left theirs behind after the wedding. We chose Chocolate Tales because we had some guests with nut allergies and they have a nut-free facility, and in just a couple days we had all the details sorted out for our favours. Chocolate Tales was able to work within our budget per favour to give us cute square chocolate bars (in multiple flavours) pre-wrapped with a custom sticker (ours had our initials and wedding date with a cute floral border in our wedding colours) AND delivery to our house a couple days before the wedding. All we had to do was bring them to the venue and put them out on the guest tables!

Hi David,

Thank you for such an amazing event last Thursday! We’ve heard nothing but great things from the team and their guests. The little details really made the difference, the cozy loft, delicious chocolates, and supporting local wineries, were all amazing!

Thanks very much. Angela did a fantastic job (again) last night walking us through the tasting and the history of chocolate, and I have received great feedback about the event. Thanks to you and your team for a great team-building session – and even better chocolate to get me through Friday.

Hi David, I wanted to send you a quick note to let you know how impressed I was with the Chocolate Tales truffle making event!  All of the packages arrive on time, as expected.

Meg was a fantastic host!  She was engaging and knowledgeable.  The time spent was a great balance of interaction, hands on and learning something!  Meg was a pro!

Thanks for delivering this great event, Kim.

Thank you, David and Chocolate Tales for an amazing virtual tasting experience. Our clients loved the chocolate tasting and especially the chocolate! Even though we did our tasting virtually, your passion for chocolate was so evident in the way you spoke that it really made everyone enjoy the experience even more. It was a pleasure to work with you on this event and we look forward to partnering with you again in the future.

Our team had an awesome experience. We especially liked the little snippets where the instructors went over the history of chocolate – it was super informative. I couldn’t have asked for a better session. We had a lot of fun with the different breakout groups as well. Even though we’re far apart right now during COVID-19, this virtual session brought us a bit closer together. A big thank you to Angela and Danielle for being such great facilitators, and David (the owner) for being so responsive to my questions via e-mail. Overall, I got a lot of thumbs up from all of our staff, and this is definitely something we would do again in the future.

Lisa Wong, Operations Manager, Penmore Financial Group

Thank you so much for organizing our AWESOME chocolate event.  The experience and the venue were most excellent. Everyone had a GREAT time and cannot stop talking about how much fun it was and how delicious the chocolate is/was!  There were many with chocolate hangovers the next day! lol Thank you so much for making our holiday party a success and happy memory.

I want to express my sincere thanks to you and your team for making our event last night such an overwhelming success.  The event is getting rave reviews from both our lawyers and clients who attended.

Thank you again for teaching us about chocolate and providing us with delicious chocolates of our own!  We have received many compliments and thanks for putting this workshop on and we would like to extend them to you as well – Thank you!

Dear Chocolate Dave, I am writing this letter to provide you with some unsolicited feedback regarding your workshops here at the Delawana Inn Spa & Conference Resort during the summer of 2011!  It is my pleasure to say that it has been a great experience having worked with an extraordinary person like yourself. The show was a complete success every week! The turn-outs as well as subsequent comments were phenomenal.  You showed a ton of dedication, enthusiasm and care to each performance. Your outstanding personality and ability to work with the resort’s clientele (people of all ages) are second to none.  While maintaining a safe environment, the creativity and fun that you exhibited were never compromised. Chocolate Tales has been a great asset to our Social  Itinerary!  Your willingness to do the best job possible & go above and beyond the call of duty is unparalleled and has definitely left a lasting impression with everyone you have ever come in contact with here at this resort.

Our family did the Chocolate Tales at the Dundurn Castle yesterday and were just thrilled with the professional top notch presentation they did. We tried various types of chocolate, ate lots and decorated lots! They had everything down to a tee, from the informative and interesting history of chocolate, to showing the making of the chocolate, to the layered table cloths for easy clean up! I had the pleasure of meeting the owner at the end to basically tell him how impressed we were with his event. We were also given lovely little boxes with ribbon and little bags to put our chocolates in at the end! Very very good, highly recommend this

I just want to say thank you so much for all of your assistance. You always responded to email inquiries in a very timely and professional manner. It was amazing service!

I also wanted to pass along that the event was a hit! Your staff members were professional, personable, friendly, attentive, understanding and amazing to work with for this event! They had everything organized and under control making the event seamless! They were incredibly understanding (as this was our first chocolate event and we did not know what to expect) and were able to thoroughly explain and convey what they needed for event set up. You have absolutely amazing staff and I would like to thank everyone involved!

Tonight was a great evening. You do a very good job, presenting and sharing and preparing chocolate.  It  was really delicious and fun. The girls had a great time..It’s chocolate!

David exceeded all of my expectations!  Not only did we get to create and devour piles of wonderful treats, we walked away with a whole new appreciation for chocolate.  I highly recommend finding any excuse to throw a chocolate party, you absolutely will not regret it!

Hi David, I just wanted to give you a VERY BIG THANK YOU. for all your great effort last Sunday.  You made the party a fun and memorable one.

I just want to say how much we enjoyed having you and making CHOCOLATE!!!! We all ate it the next day! Thanks so much!!!

Thanks for this. I had a great time, as did my friend.  We both learned a lot and we both cook a lot so it was a pure delight to learn new things. The presenter – Kelly, is articulate, did not ever speak in a condescending manner, had good, light, humor.  Her presentation flowed in a logical, easy to understand manner and she did not say “um” even once… a mark of an excellent presenter. The chocolate we worked with tastes amazing, and it was clear that this was not “just chocolate”.. so very rich and delicious. I was not sure about the ginger, or the chili flavours.  But, they were good experiences just the same. The portions were very generous, and the instructions were clear and easy to follow. At the end, we had samples of single origin chocolate.  The only place in Canada I have ever had that as a retail product (bar form only) was at the Newfoundland Chocolate company, in St. John’s Newfoundland, so kudos to you for introducing it to the people at the workshop.. it is so unique.  I really liked Kelly’s explanation about how it came to “single origin”, and the variations in the environment and the effect on the cacao plants. The funniest part to me is that I cook with cacao nibs often, and until last night I did not know how they were made. Thank you for a lovely  and informative .. and fun and delicious evening. – Nancy M. “

I just wanted to belatedly thank you for organizing the truly amazing chocolate holiday event with Chocolate Tales.  It was really fun, a great way to connect with colleagues I didn’t know, really interesting…and obviously DELICIOUS!!  I thought that the facilitator was super interesting, full of chocolate-knowledge and yet able to keep it light and moving quickly to keep everyone’s attention.  The activities fostered team spirit, and yet if you were on a less-than-stellar team (I mean competitively speaking), there were still new skills to hone and chocolate to ENJOY! I had a total blast and would totally consider doing something like this…for my 40th?!  For my kids’ parties when they get a bit older (I don’t want to waste it on their unsophisticated palates!)?  For a friend’s weding shower?  So many delicious possibilities… Thanks and happy 2014!! Jodi

I wanted to write a quick note of thanks to tell you how amazing our evening with Cocoa Kelly was! Her historical and technical knowledge as well as passion really made for an incredible team event.I have received rave reviews from everyone on my team about our evening making chocolate… thank you! I will definitely spread the word within our organization. Best regards, Martin S.

I just wanted to send you a big thank you to you and your staff for such a great experience! Every person in our group LOVED the chocolate making session and we all had such a good time.  It was very informative and so interesting to learn about the history of chocolate. To be able to actually create our own chocolates was a real treat and I have had nothing but positive feedback regarding this session. I would also like to extend a sincere thank you to Kelly!  She was absolutely amazing!  She is pleasant, knowledgeable and very engaging.  It was such a pleasure to spend time with her and I truly appreciate you sending us such a wonderful person to learn from. Again, thank you for such a unique and fun experience and I would not hesitate to recommend Chocolate Tails!  Our experience was exceptional! All the best, Colleen  S.

We had an AMAZING time yesterday.  Kelly did such a great job facilitating the workshop and hours later, we still can’t stop talking about how much fun we had.  I’m really glad that I came across your site and I definitely will recommend the workshop to my network. Thanks for working with me to ensure the event went off without a hitch.  Ten Restaurant was a great suggestion and the food/beverages and service was perfect. Dennis L.

I just wanted to send over a quick note to thank-you for the chocolate you prepared for our wedding on October 24t. It was absolutely perfect and exceeded our expectations. We were so happy with the service we received and the quality of the chocolate. Luckily there was some left over and we’ve been enjoying it at home. The chocolate was some of the best I’ve ever had, the pairings were perfect and the ordering was so stress free.

Your team was amazing and did a great job in making our event fun and informative for our group.  The experience added a nice touch to the start of our celebrations that carried right through the entire evening. Thank you for a job well done!

I just wanted to thank you for accommodating our unique needs and keeping me informed of everything leading up to our event today. Sonia was phenomenal and really had the residents engaged throughout the entire program. This will be something they will talk about for a while now and were very happy to be a part of it. Thanks again, it was such a success.

On behalf of the CICE team, I wanted to take this opportunity to, once again, thank you for such a wonderful experience last Wednesday! The entire team truly had a great time and the chocolate treats were delicious! Your presentation was very informative and well done! Thank you for helping us make our team building day a GREAT success! The CICE Team

I am writing to thank you and Angela for the amazing workshop we received yesterday. Our guests loved it and it was a fantastic experience. We learned so much about chocolate and we got to taste lots of different flavours and delicious chocolates. All the guests commented on how rich and delicious the chocolate was. Also, Angela was an absolute joy. She was kind, entertaining, and very knowledgeable. She involved the bride in the chocolate making process and made her feel special. We had a couple of young girls who were eager to participate in the process and Angela kindly included them and let them help her out. She didn’t have to do that but her actions made all the difference. I was also very touched when she offered to wrap the chocolates the bride made individually so I could give them away to the guests. I mentioned that I wanted give the guests those chocolates to take home and she went out of her way to make it happen. We were so happy with the service. Thank you for making our event that much special!!

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to Chocolate Tales for providing a wonderful experience that suited a wide age range (youngest being 3 and oldest being 70). My family thoroughly enjoyed the workshop and we are still enjoying some truly delicious chocolate!

I want to thank you for the wonderful experience. I have never written a thank you letter before this is my first time right from the beginning with your help booking my workshop and your great customer service and to Angela being great at hosting the workshop it truly was an amazing experience I have tried a bunch of new things this year like going to the gun range and driving a Lamborghini and Ferrari on a race track and making wine and a winery tour but this was probably the best experience I also found it to be therapeutic so thank you so much I had a great time and everyone who attended the workshop was great and fun we all helped each other out.

“Thank you David and the Chocolate Tales team for another amazing event! Our custom chocolate ‘celebration’ was a great success and our guests really enjoyed the opportunity to participate in treat making and tastings at their leisure. We were incredibly happy with the service from start to finish and look forward to planning another event with you soon!”

Thanks so much for making my mother’s day and those of our moms an extra sweet and special one.  We have all been indulging, the truffles are delicious and can’t say enough about the level of service you provided on all fronts, it was sincerely appreciated.

I just wanted to let you know what a great time we had making and eating the chocolate.  You were a pleasure to work with and my grandchildren and husband are still enjoying the fruits of their labour.  I will certainly recommend chocolate making to all of our friends.

Thank you again.

Thank you for a great event!  I enjoyed seeing the team so engaged and entertained so much in what was our first in-person event since before the pandemic.  What could be better than chocolate?

It was loads of fun and we all learned a lot.

Thanks again.

Hello! We received the chocolates and tasted them. We loved particularly the carrot cake one, the marshmallow one, and loved the ruby bar. We will definitely order again from you! Your chocolates are divine! Thank you a lot!